Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

I'm in the business of providing people with secondary satisfactions. It wouldn't have done me much good if they had all written their own plays, would it?

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument.

It is hard to tell where the MCC ends and the Church of England begins.

Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable.